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London commuters must feel like they've stumbled into a sci-fi flick. On the platform at Notting Hill Gate underground station, a poster for American singer Jack Johnson doesn't just promote his latest album, In Between Dreams - it plays three of the tracks. On the main escalator at Tottenham Court Road, nearly half a million riders a month watch ads such as an overflowing bath - for home insurers Direct Line - cascade down a line of 33 LED screens. And when Coldplay launched their album X&Y in May, giant screens beamed invitations to every turned-on, Bluetooth mobile...
While it would be foolish to claim that cliques don’t exist at Harvard, they don’t define life here either. I can promise that a Rydell High Sandra Dee experience is not in store for you upon entering Johnston Gate, and that while some Harvard cliques may prefer pink polo shirts, they won’t sport Pink Lady jackets as a sign of their exclusivity...
Mark Partridge Miner remembers lying on a beach in St. Augustine, Fla., looking at the stars and wishing he were fighting in Iraq. So he dropped out of college and volunteered. When he arrived last November, he spent months grudgingly guarding a gate to Baghdad International Airport and yearning to be on the convoys heading into the red zone. His early posts, some of which are addressed to the insurgents ("The whites of my eyes are the last thing you will see before you kiss the feet of my God ..."), are zealous and antsy for action. His later ones, after...
Vikram Seth had a problem. The Calcutta-born, London-based author had exploded onto the literary scene in 1986 with The Golden Gate, a novel in verse set in California. His 1993 Indian saga A Suitable Boy - at nearly 1,400 pages the longest work of fiction in English since the 18th century - sold a million copies in Britain alone. Then came some poems, an opera libretto and ? nothing. "You don't know exactly what to write about next," Seth's mother, visiting from India, told him in 1994. "Why don't you write about him?" She was referring...
...Lost Ark, has built a new empire. It's the "ultimate digital studio," he says, an antidote to celluloid's costly chemical processing and vaunted studio system. The Letterman Digital Arts Center is a $350 million facility inside San Francisco's Presidio, a national park overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. The idea is to advance production of digital films, games, special effects and animation--something Lucas has done for decades yet Hollywood hasn't quite caught on to. "We make films for half or a third of the cost," Lucas told TIME. "The film industry still has to go through...